Currencies and equities sold off aggressively following the release of the labor market numbers, they clawed their way back to end the US trading session in positive territory.

Dr. Adrian Manz analyzes the major markets, stock sectors, and individual stocks for December 5.

Recent retail news has actually been good.  Then why is the market not responding?

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for December 5.

Do we really have an Obama bounce?  How much?  For how long?

The US economy has officially entered a recession and the labor market numbers that are due on Friday will confirm that. Not only do we expect the US economy to report its eleventh consecutive month of job losses, but the job losses will probably be the largest in 26 years.

The President of the ECB said inflation pressures are diminishing due to a fall in commodity prices and a significant slowdown in economic activity.

The Bank of England cut their benchmark rate by 100 bps as was expected by economist bringing it to 2.00%. The pound traded higher on the news reversing earlier losses as traders started to expect a more aggressive move given the dour fundamental data that has recently crossed the wires.

Professional trader Price Headley analyzes the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq stocks indices.